I'll see if I can get Dex to repro it. In your example, I'd change the filter to

word1|word2|word2

And remove the commas.

How many filters do you have listed in the main filter window? It's not just "Global" is it?

Edit:

As an experiment, how about copying one of your existing filters by using "new Filter" then give it a new name and use an existing filter as a template so, you see

<Filter>Test1Test2Test3

Listed in the main filter window. Then close that window, re-open to ensure the new filters are still there. Then try again in the watch options. When I'm talking about coping, I mean the entire filter so, you might see one or more listed on the left hand side of the filter window. We're trying to increase the number of named filter profiles on the left. We're not adding additional filters to an existing filter profile.

Are you running this on Windows? Dex thinks it might be a rendering problem with the control.

I am running on Win 10. The watch topics had worked perfectly until recently. I only noticed when one started downloading every file from its header. When I looked, the filters were missing and I couldn't add them back.

It may have been after the last update that I spotted the problem.

I have 13 Filters (inc Global) set up. ( the web link had pictures of both windows)

I have created 4 new ones by using (4 different) templates. All 4 are now visible with the others in the main filter window.

Have made new Watches based on a template, and starting from scratch. None show any filters

My current theory is that the way the filters are loaded in the watch list options doesn't use the full path so, it works when the program "run from" is in the same folder as the FiltersDb.db3. Turns out the way they're loaded in the groups options is slightly different.

It'll be fixed in the next beta. It's not clear to me exactly why it works for Dex and I but not you. I guess it depends on how Newsbin is started.